Is it just a matter of setting your mill on coarse and then cooking it? Has anyone ever done this?

-- gita (gita@directcon.net), January 22, 2002

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Hi Gita: Funny that you would ask, that is what we had for breakfast this morning. Now, I do not really know all the neat ideas you may get from others but I will tell you what we do. My sister raises Spring Wheat which I believe is also known as soft wheat. Anyway I have tried Winter wheat or hard wheat and we prefer Spring wheat. It is ground a little coarser than for bread flour. I just look at it and decide how fine to go. My sister uses a wire mesh colander and seperates it even further so that you have a cream of wheat that is finer than say cracked wheat. According to my Deaf Smith cookbook you fix it 3 parts water / 1 part cereal. I let the water boil then add the cereal and put in on low with a lid and wait 15 min. or so. You can add salt to the boiling water if you want. It is a favorite at our house.

-- Marie (Mamafila@aol.com), January 22, 2002.

That is so neat....Now I have to get a mill too...maybe I better not read anymore threads before my list of wants outgrows our available funds....LOL...

-- Kristean Thompson (pigalena_babe@yahoo.com), January 22, 2002.

Marie, does it come out like store bought cream of wheat? We crack our wheat in the flaker mill and use 2 1/2 parts of milk (we have dairy animals, so we always have lots of milk) and make bear mush. However, it is more like oatmeal than cream of wheat.

-- Marci (Marci@amazingrazefarm.com), January 23, 2002.

Marci: You know I haven't bought Cream of Wheat in over 25 years so I really can't remember exactly, but it definitely is not flaked or like oatmeal. The flavor and texture is like what I remember Cream of Wheat being. A friend of my sister's owned Joseph's Mill, sold in Health Food stores and they made a three grain cereal that was wheat, rye and flax. It was delicious. Mostly wheat and rye, you could see the flax as it was not ground. I usually grind my flax seeds in a coffee grinder and add because it is easier to digest and you can also add it to your salad, as a topping to your oatmeal, etc. for more nutrition. My children love it.

-- Marie (Mamafila@aol.com), January 23, 2002.

This easy, bear mush is wheat flour, sometimes just a tad less fine than store bought whole grain wheat flour, cream of wheat is less fine (bigger)than than bear mush and not quite as coarse as store bought corn meal, meal is yet bigger, coarse meal yet bigger, cracked can be fine or coarse, flaked is whole grains that are steamed and smashed flat(it's rolled between big hot steel rollers) cut is run through high speed cutting blades so it looks sliced.

-- Thumper (slrldr@yahoo.com), January 23, 2002.